Comments on: Warning Signs For Trespassers http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/warning_signs_f.html Dispatches from a Small Business Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: LJK http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/warning_signs_f.html/comment-page-1#comment-3972 LJK Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:10:17 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/10/warning_signs_f.html #comment-3972 <p>The worst part of any liability issue is the companies and groups set up to “protect” you from lawsuits. Most of them have only succeeded in turning a reasonable standard of care into and industry standard of care. I remember trying to put in a playground at the park. The National Playground Safety Institute pretends to protect you, but all they’ve really accomplished is turning three missing inches of landing area at the bottom of a slide into criminal negligence.</p> <p>With that said, I’ve always defended the woman who spilled coffee on herself. I can’t defend the amount the jury awarded her, but McDonald’s coffee is roughly the temperature of molten lava. “Warning: Hot Coffee,” doesn’t begin to cover it.<br /> </p> The worst part of any liability issue is the companies and groups set up to “protect” you from lawsuits. Most of them have only succeeded in turning a reasonable standard of care into and industry standard of care. I remember trying to put in a playground at the park. The National Playground Safety Institute pretends to protect you, but all they’ve really accomplished is turning three missing inches of landing area at the bottom of a slide into criminal negligence.

With that said, I’ve always defended the woman who spilled coffee on herself. I can’t defend the amount the jury awarded her, but McDonald’s coffee is roughly the temperature of molten lava. “Warning: Hot Coffee,” doesn’t begin to cover it.

]]> By: Rob http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/10/warning_signs_f.html/comment-page-1#comment-3971 Rob Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:07:03 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/10/warning_signs_f.html #comment-3971 <p>What part of "Hot Coffee" don't you understand?</p> <p>Sheesh...</p> What part of “Hot Coffee” don’t you understand?

Sheesh…

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